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tained they had spent the rest. Mrs. Quaintance didn’t buy the story, and eventually recovered the rest of the loot hidden in a cemetery in Page County. “Sherlock Holmes would be envious,” Mr. Wood concluded. “She was not only an educator, she was policeman, jury — and judge.”
The entire championship girls’ basketball team from 1938-39 returned for the birthday gathering. Mae Brown Allison, Virginia Woodward, Frances Brown Thornton, Louise Schaefer Varner and Dibby Schaefer Manuel were coached by Mrs. Quaintance, who always found time in her busy schedule to encourage her students to participate in sports. “There wasn’t much to do but play basketball,” Mrs. Thornton recalled.
Robert Witten, who began his administrative career as assistant principal under Mrs. Quaintance and is now a county superintendent in Pennsylvania, remembered the crestfallen look on the face of his counterpart in Warren County every year when the Rappahannock bus arrived for Field Day. “The kids filed off the bus, and his face got longer and longer. I don’t think they ever won.”
Mary Edna Schaefer, a student in Mrs. Quaintance’s class the first
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